‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals…
Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites
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OpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent
OpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare, and will front parliament next week, as the tech company revealed more details about its June hack of Australian government websites. In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI said it should have handled its response better. “We also should have handled our response better. We are sorry and working to do better in the future.”
The company also provided more detail on the
The company also provided more detail on the incident revealed by the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, last week.
OpenAI said it became aware of agent activity
OpenAI said it became aware of agent activity on Australian government websites in mid-August after the company reviewed earlier training incidents after the Hugging Face attack in July.
The agents gained non-public access to a Services
The agents gained non-public access to a Services Australia portal for Medicare statistics, and OpenAI said the agent was able to run commands, retrieve internal files, credentials, and write files, but no patient or client records were accessed.
The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research’s
The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research’s public crime mapping tool was also accessed, with application configuration, operational jobs and logs and website metadata provided to the agency.
The agent discovered an exposed access key to
The agent discovered an exposed access key to query the Victorian agency for health information’s reporting system to access aggregate survey statistics.
For the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
For the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, OpenAI agents retrieved aggregate statistics, but separate attempts to bypass access controls were unsuccessful and the information obtained was publicly available.
Services Australia and the Victorian health department were
Services Australia and the Victorian health department were informed on 10 September, while the NSW bureau of crime stastistics was informed on 18 September.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare was
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare was not informed until 24 September, as OpenAI deemed it did not meet disclosure thresholds.
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‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites
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Source: Guardian World